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Originally Posted by Skipaway
And don't you realize that's why statheads hate W-L numbers.
W-L numbers are like calculators, and advanced stats are like Excel.
If I don't have Excel, of course I'd have to settle for calculators. However, when we have both, listening someone keep talking about using calculators is really annoying when you can do a lot more powerful stuff with the easily-available Excel. It's not really statheads' fault that not everyone knows how to use Excel.
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However, it is the fault of the statheads for assuming that people who are less educated are stupid rather than just, well, less educated. And that includes using Excel. To give a great example: I work at a company where I have to constantly crunch numbers to make sure everything adds up right for our customers. I am the only person I know who works there who uses a spreadsheet to do this. Is it because I'm inherently smarter than everyone else? No, it's because baseball stats have made me used to Excel, whereas for the vast majority of my co-workers, it's still easier to do stuff on the calculator.